Panicle

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A compound raceme.

    "Inflorescence a large terminal, leafy, cross-armed panicle, composed of small, 5-flowered, terminal umbellets."

  2. 2
    compound raceme or branched cluster of flowers wordnet

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"Inflorescence a large terminal, leafy, cross-armed panicle, composed of small, 5-flowered, terminal umbellets."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pānicula, diminutive of pānus (“ear of millet, literally 'thread wound on a bobbin'”), from Ancient Greek πῆνος (pênos, “web”), πηνίον (pēníon, “bobbin”). Doublet of panocha.

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